Rolling Stock Roster
Current Cars
Taken directly from the Chicago Transit/Metra Railfan - 'Metra Car Roster' Page
Numbers Type Builder Built Notes
1-30 MU Coach Nippon-Sharyo 1982-83
31-38 MU Coach Nippon-Sharyo 1982-83 Metra owned
39-44 MU Coach Nippon-Sharyo 1982-83
17,26,41 MU Coach Nippon-Sharyo 1992 replacements
45-48 MU Coach Nippon-Sharyo 1992
201-210 Trailer Nippon-Sharyo 1992
Original cars 17, 26, 41 were wrecked and replacement cars were built with same numbers.
All cars owned by Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD), except for cars 31-38 owned by Metra.
These two agencies' juristictions end at the Illinois/Indiana state line for this joint interstate operation.
All cars have cabs at both ends except for the trailers, which have no cabs and must be used between other cars. The trailers have pantographs for auxiliary power.
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Old Cars
Taken directly from the Chicago Transit/Metra Railfan - 'South Shore Line Electric Cars' Page
Numbers Type Builder Built
1- 15 MU Coach Pullman 1926
16- 25 MU Coach Pullman 1927
26- 39 MU Coach Standard Steel 1929
40 MU Coach Standard Steel 1929
100-109 MU Coach/Baggage Pullman 1926
110 MU Coach/Baggage Pullman 1926
111 MU Coach/Baggage Standard Steel 1929
201-210 Trailer Pullman 1927
211-212 Trailer Pullman 1929
353-354 Trailer Standard Steel 1929
All cars were originally 60 feet long. During the 1940's, cars 11-28, 100-111, and 201-206 were lengthened to 78 feet. Cars
23-28 and 100-111 were also modernized to include air conditioning and picture windows. Cars 40, 110, and 111 had been
rebuilt from cars 213, 10, and 29. Trailer coaches 353 and 354 were rebuilt from parlor cars of the same numbers.
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(The Illinois Railway Museum owns retired car numbers
8, 19, 28, 34, 37, and 40. The East Troy Electric
Railroad Museum has retired cars 9, 11, 30 and 111, as well as cars 24 and 25 which
have been converted to dining cars. The East Troy cars have their pantagraphs removed,
and were converted to 600v operation by trolly wire.)
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